Knowledge Quote by Betty Southard Murphy

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

— Steven Pressfield

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

— Anonymous

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service,…

— Dick Durbin

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

— Walter Cronkite

“Service journalists. That's how an editor-in-chief described us to a roomful of corporate communicators. We are, he said, purveyors of ideas, of information and…

— Lionel L. Fisher

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered…

— Tom Stoppard

“Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything…

— Tomislav S. Šola

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of…

— Michael Schudson

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You…

— Anthony Doerr

I'm a professional in every aspect and in every facet of that word.

— Josh Hart

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

— Benito Mussolini

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging…

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger